You're probably already guessing it and you're right: multileaders can also be annotative.…In this lesson, we'll use the Annotative property to create some…predictably sized multileaders.…On my screen I have a civil engineering example.…This drawing represents a proposed site plan for a fast-food restaurant.…Since this is a civil engineering example, each unit equals one foot.…I've already created a layout for this drawing.…Let's click the Layout tab and take a look.…This layout is configured for an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper.…

If I zoom in and double-click in the viewport, we can see the viewport scale is…set to 1 to 30, or 1 inch = 30 feet.…I'm going to double-click outside the viewport to get my cursor back on the layout.…I'll do a Zoom Extents and then we'll return to model space.…If I zoom in, you can see that I've already added some annotations to this drawing.…If I hover over them, the Annotative icon displays, showing us that these were…created using annotative styles.…At this point, I'd like to add some annotative multileaders.…

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7/10/2012

In this installment of AutoCAD Essentials, author Jeff Bartels shows how to transition designs from concept to construction. Discover how to create hard copies of your drawings that are printed to a measurable scale, tie annotations to a plot scale, so text, dimensions, and callouts are properly sized, and share drawings between different CAD programs. Jeff also takes a close look at the DWF format, which enables clients to mark up drawings without CAD software. The final chapter includes a drawing challenge, where designers have an opportunity to use what they've learned to complete a small project.

Topics include:

Creating quick plots

Choosing line weights

Organizing layouts

Sizing text, dimensions, and multileaders using the Annotative property